Microsoft Copilot has been silently upgraded to a extra superior synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin, revealed an organization govt on Tuesday. With the improve, Copilot, the AI-powered chatbot, is now powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo mannequin. Both the free tier and the Pro model can now entry the most recent mannequin, nevertheless, solely Copilot Pro customers could have the choice to revert to older GPT-4 mannequin. Notably, the tech large additionally not too long ago revealed the launch date for its Copilot for Security platform, confirming that it’s going to change into out there globally beginning April 1.
Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, shared a put up on X (previously referred to as Twitter) on March 12, and mentioned, “After quite some work, GPT4-Turbo replaced GPT-4 in the Copilot free tier. Pro users can still choose the older model, if prefer (there is a toggle).” The announcement comes with none fanfare, nevertheless, it’s a vital improve that can impression common customers. Notably, Copilot Pro customers may already entry GPT-4 Turbo.
For starters, the data cut-off of GPT-4-based Copilot was September 2021 however GPT-4 Turbo has a data base up to April 2023. This is not going to be noticeable when trying to find on-line subjects because the AI chatbot is linked to the web, nevertheless, for subjects which can’t be readily discovered on the web, the elevated data output is anticipated to lead to extra up to date responses. Apart from the Balanced mode, the up to date AI mannequin’s help has additionally been added to the Creative and Precise modes.
GPT-4 Turbo was launched by OpenAI in November 2023. It comes with an elevated context window of 128,000 tokens, as opposed to GPT-4’s 8,000 tokens. The AI agency mentioned that it may match the equal of greater than 300 pages of textual content in a single immediate. This signifies that the most recent AI mannequin can look by a bigger set of information to discover contextual details about a immediate. Interestingly, the free tier of OpenAI’s native chatbot ChatGPT continues to be working on GPT 3.5 AI mannequin.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has additionally revealed the launch date for its Copilot for Security platform which shall be out there to enterprise prospects beginning April 1. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Microsoft’s safety fashions, it comes with multilingual capabilities, providing help for 25 totally different languages.
